Recursively delete all .svn folders

Needed to quickly delete all .svn folders and files within them from a machine where svn client was not setup. Here's how: bash #!/bin/sh echo "recursively…

Written by Nirav Mehta

Published 5 September 20071 min read2 comments

Needed to quickly delete all .svn folders and files within them from a machine where svn client was not setup.

Here's how:

#!/bin/sh
echo "recursively removing .svn folders from"
pwd
rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

Taken from: Any Example

2 comments

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shashi5 September 2007
One more way:

find . -type d -name '.svn' -exec rm -rf {} \;
Sanjay2 January 2008
Single quote is not working on Linux
find . -type d -name ‘.svn’ -exec rm -rf {} \;

The right way is:
find . -type d -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} \;